23 PhD Students graduated under my supervision (2004-2022):

 

Mamoun Al-Mardini
PhD, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, Spring, 2018
malmardini@ufl.edu
Website

PhD Dissertation:
Reduction of Readmissions to Hospitals Based on Actionable Knowledge Discovery and Personalization.

Assistant Professor in the College of Medicine at the University of Florida, Gainesville

 

Pierre Arbajian
PhD, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, Spring, 2019
pierrenclt@yahoo.com
Website

PhD Dissertation:
Disfluent Speech Segments Detection and Remediation.

Director at MUFG (Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Inc.), Charlotte, NC

 

Arunkumar Bagavathi
PhD, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, Fall, 2019
abagava@okstate.edu
Website

PhD Dissertation:
Distributed Actionable Pattern Mining.
(under the supervision of A. Tzacheva & Z.W. Ras)

Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Oklahoma State University in Stillwater

 

Konrad Ciecierski
PhD, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland, Spring, 2014
konrad.ciecierski@gmail.com
Website

PhD Dissertation:
Decision Support System for Surgical Treatment of Parkinson's Disease.
(The best 2014 PhD thesis in the area of AI in Poland)

Chair of Bioinformatics and Machine Recognition Department at NASK, and Neurophysiological Data Analyst at Maria Sklodowska-Curie Institute of Oncology, Warsaw, Poland

 

Amanda Cohen-Mostafavi
PhD, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, Spring, 2014
babybogart@gmail.com
Website

PhD Dissertation:
Personalized Indexing of Music by Emotions.

Senior Data Engineer at LexisNexis, Raleigh, North Carolina

 

Agnieszka Dardzinska
PhD, Polish Academy of Sciences, Spring, 2004
DSc (Habilitation), Polish Academy of Sciences, Spring, 2013
Agnieszka.Dardzinska@gmail.com
Website

PhD Dissertation:
Chase Method Based on Dynamic Knowledge Discovery for Predicting Values in Incomplete Information Systems.

Vice Chancellor for Education (Prorektor) & Associate Prof. in the Institute of Mechanics and Informatics at Bialystok Univ. of Technology, Poland

 

Bryan Dobbs
PhD, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, Fall, 2022
btdobbs@charlotte.edu
Website

PhD Dissertation:
Art Authentification in an Untagged Art Database.

Visiting Assistant Professor, Computer Science, UNC-Charlotte

 

Yuehua Duan
PhD, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, Fall, 2022
duan.425@osu.edu
Website

PhD Dissertation:
Recommender System for Improving Churn Rate.

Data Science Senior Analyst at the Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio

 

Jacek Grekow
PhD, Polish-Japanese Academy of Information Technology, Fall, 2009
DSc (Habilitation), Polish-Japanese Academy of Information Technology, Summer, 2019
grekowj@ii.pb.bialystok.pl
Website
Jacek Grekow's CD: Southern Impressions

PhD Dissertation:
Automatic Detection and Visualization of Emotions in Music.

Associate Prof. in Comp. Science Dept. at Bialystok Univ. of Technology, Poland

 

Ayman Hajja
PhD, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, Fall, 2013
ahajja@charlotte.edu
Website

PhD Dissertation:
Object-Driven and Temporal Action Rules Mining.

Teaching Associate Professor, Computer Science, UNC-Charlotte

 

Wenxin (Mike) Jiang
PhD, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, Fall, 2009
wjiang2@fhcrc.org
Website

PhD Dissertation:
Polyphonic Music Information Retrieval Based on Multi-Label Cascade Classification System.

Software Engineer at Ozette Technologies in Seattle, Washington

 

Joon Jung (Seunghyun Im)
PhD, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, Fall, 2006
a261@outlook.com
Website

PhD Dissertation:
Data Safekeeping against Knowledge Discovery.

Patent Examiner at US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), U.S. Department of Commerce, Alexandria, Virginia

 

Jieyan Kuang
PhD, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Spring, 2016
jieyan.kuang@bankofamerica.com
Website

PhD Dissertation:
Hierarchically Structered Recommender System.

Vice President at Bank of America, Charlotte, NC

 

Elzbieta Kubera
PhD, Polish-Japanese Academy of Information Technology, Spring, 2011
elzbieta.kubera@up.lublin.pl
Website

PhD Dissertation:
The role of temporal attributes in identifying instruments in polytimbral music recordings.

Assistant Prof. at Maria Curie-Sklodowska University, Lublin, Poland

 

Rory Lewis
PhD, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, Spring, 2008
rlewis@eas.uccs.edu
Website
Rory Lewis's CD "Songs for Friday"
Latest Book

PhD Dissertation:
Mining Emotions in a Non-Tagged Music Database.

Associate Prof. in Computer Science Department at University of Colorado, Colorado Springs

 

Laurel Boykin Powell
PhD, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, Summer, 2020
lpowel28@uncc.edu
Website

PhD Dissertation:
Developing a Recommender System for Pricing Contemporary Fine Art.

Lecturer in Computer Science Department at UNC-Charlotte

 

Jaishree Ranganathan
PhD, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, Spring, 2020
jranganathan@mtsu.edu
Website

PhD Dissertation:
Emotion Mining from Text and Actionable Pattern Discovery.
(under the supervision of A. Tzacheva & Z.W. Ras)

Assistant Professor in Computer Science Department at Middle Tennessee State University

 

Katarzyna Tarnowska
PhD, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, Spring, 2018
k.tarnowska@unf.edu
Website

PhD Dissertation:
Customer Loyalty Improvement Recommender System (CLIRS)

Assistant Professor in the School of Computing at University of North Florida, Jacksonville

 

Pamela Liberty Thompson
PhD, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, Fall, 2011
pthompso@catawba.edu
Website
Pamela's IPROMISE Project on YouTube

PhD Dissertation:
Mining for Knowledge to Build Decision Support System for Diagnosis and Treatment of Tinnitus.

Associate Prof. of Information Systems, Ketner School of Business at Catawba College

 

Hakim Touati
PhD, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, Spring, 2014
h.touati1@gmail.com
Website

PhD Dissertation:
Automated Meta-actions Discovery for Personalized Medical Treatments.

Lead Principal Machine Learning Engineer at Aktana, San Francisco, California

 

Li-Shiang Tsay
PhD, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, Fall, 2005
ltsay@ncat.edu
Website

PhD Dissertation:
Discovering Extended Action Rules (DEAR).

Associate Prof. of IT at North Carolina A&T State University

 

Angelina A. Tzacheva
PhD, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, Fall, 2004
dr.tzacheva@gmail.com
Website

PhD Dissertation:
Action Rules: Feasibility and Lowest Cost Reclassification.

Professor and Program Chair, College of Technology and Engineering, Westcliff University, Irvine, CA

 

Cynthia Xin Zhang
PhD, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, Fall, 2007
xin.zhang@uncp.edu
Website

PhD Dissertation:
Cooperative Music Retrieval Based on Automatic Indexing of Music by Instruments and Their Types.

Associate Prof. of Comp. Sci. at University of North Carolina, Pembroke
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